For some reason, it seems like my weight seems to follow more of a sinusoidal curve than a direct line. So I wind up 'hovering near' some benchmark weight for several weeks before a large plummet. I suppose this is probably healthy and unwise to attempt to accelerate, so it suits me fine.
But it's cool when you see your weight drop below the lowest recent point; in my case hitting 199.5 a few days ago. Wii fit isn't to blame, but I suppose it probably doesn't hurt either.
I'm wondering, with our upcoming Alaska trip looming, if I'm going to be losing weight...we don't want to "eat out" the entire way as much as we can avoid it, as this quickly gets expensive, so we've developed a complex system of preparations that hopefully makes simple but satisfying dinners on the road and in the campsite. With rich stews, hearty stroganoff, thick potatoes au gratin, and the "dutch oven" factor (an extra portion of oils and shortening), one really wonders just how lean we're going to be eating.
Speaking of Dutch Ovens, I've noticed that in googling for dutch oven recipes, they all say at the bottom, "Feeds 18-20." This kind of takes the dutch out of the oven, when you look at it from a couple's point of view. So I'm thinking of starting a wiki of my modified-downward recipes for 8" dutch oven cooking, all serves: 2. I've found it's not as obvious as people might think; you can't simply divide one egg into thirds (at least not and still make it something you can easily prepare while camping). You have to make tradeoffs, strike out some things, and make substitutions for others. We've distilled recipes down to a set of at-home preparations (putting mixtures into ziplock bags), on-the-road happen-to-finds (meats and other perishables you may not be able to 'pack in', but instead find at the grocery the day before), and at-the-campsite cooking instructions boiled down to 2-3 simple steps (involving throwing the previous packets of stuff into something that cooks them).
I wonder if others would find documenting that useful; more like a how-to for camp cooking. If so we could do a wiki. If not, we would just make our own recipe book and laminate it.
